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The Watson Caring Science Institute is envisioning and organizing a 2010 Million Nurse Global Caring Field Project, in conjunction with Nightingale declaration for global health, the centenary of NG, and HeartMath’s global coherence project.

In 2008 and 2009, Sue Hagedorn and Vicki Erickson conducted a workshops at the University of Colorado with the Doctoral Program in Nursing, known worldwide for its focus on caring and reflective practice. The workshops were facilitated by Daniel Weinshenker, Martha Tenney and Mary Ann McNair from the Center for Digital Storytelling and Pip Hardy from Patient Voices. The two workshops are part of a three-part series of workshops to be run at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Future workshops will focus on interdisciplinary stories (nurses and doctors, doctors and patients). The stories are currently being used in the doctoral program in nursing to engage students and practicing health care professionals in dialogue on topics from ethics in health care, to the value of reflective practice, to what really constitutes care.

The Truth About Nursing seeks to increase public understanding of the central, front-line role nurses play in modern health care. Our focus is to promote more accurate, balanced and frequent media portrayals of nurses and increase the media’s use of nurses as expert sources. The Truth About Nursing’s ultimate goal is to foster growth in the size and diversity of the nursing profession at a time of critical shortage, strengthen nursing practice, teaching and research, and improve the health care system.

NIGH’s mission is to inform and empower nurses and other health care workers and educators to become ‘21st Century Nightingales’ — working in the local, national and global community to build a healthy world. See more about the NIGH project: The Nightingale Declaration for a Healthy World by 2020.

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